Azeri armed forces bring fire upon OSCE mission

PanARMENIAN.Net - On February 26, the OSCE mission scheduled a regular monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces near Horadiz settlement of Fizouli region.



However, from the very beginning of the monitoring a single-round firing was directed at the mission consisting of coordinator of the OSCE office Imre Palatinus (Hungary), Field Assistant of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Irzhi Aberle (Czech Republic), who conducted the monitoring from the positions of the NKR Defense Army, and the representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, accompanying them.



Then, burst of machine-gun fire was opened from the Azerbaijani positions that passed to the left from the monitoring group. Afterwards, another single shot was made in the direction of the mission.



Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, who headed the monitoring group from the Azerbaijani territory ordered to stop the monitoring.



Besides, the Azerbaijani side did not lead the OSCE mission to the arranged point of its frontline once again, NKR MFA press service reported.